On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Monte Copeland wrote: > > I know you know the old saying, "If it's not broke don't fix it." I > was trying to "tweak" > my X Window System display by running XF86Setup utility. I had had a > nice display setup already but I thought if I tinkered with it some more > I could get pictures to be little sharper than they were in netscape. ( > I have a 4 MB AGP Diamond Stealth Card ) After I changed some settings I > saved them and exited the program. When I rebooted the system, it went > through the standard boot-up routine except when it got to xdm my screen > went blank and everything locked up. I figured that if I new how to > disable xdm, I could boot up to just the Linux command line and run > XF86Setup again, but I do not know what config file to edit in order to > disable xdm. Know your initdefault then goto /etc/rc(initdefault).d/ , find the file with xdm in it like S99xdm then delete that file.
It's just a symlink to /etc/init.d/xdm Hope this helps Admiral Charah Tech Support, Cyberspace Laoag, ISP http://www2.csi.com.ph/~keyoz "Overuse of the smiley is mark of loserhood" --The Jargon File V4.0.0
